100 million bucks anyone ??

[ariston]

I can honestly would say that 100 million extra wouldnt make a difference to me as I have not got a chance of winning main event. If I did I would be quite happy with the 10 million or so and the sponsorship deal that would follow. I think the thing that would make a difference to where I qualify would be how you treat your qualifiers while out there- a site that looks after its qualifiers with other things to do apart from just the poker is essential as I'm usually out on day 1 anyway

[byronkincaid]

I think Full Tilt offered an extra 10 mill last year if one of their qualifiers won it.

With the news that Stars (and presumeably other sites that accept US players) are having to give out cash instead of buying people into the event it seems like numbers in the ME are going to be way down this year.

I was really hoping that the site I qualify on was going to give out cash but unfortunately they emailed yesterday to say they are buying us in

[Sheriff Fatman]

The Full Tilt thing is not all as it seems though.  From memory of reading the small print ages ago its a salary of $1m per year for 10 years during which you're signed up to promote Full Tilt on an exclusive basis.

If I were ever lucky enough to have to think about this, I'm not sure I'd want to automatically accept the cash on these terms.  There's a chance you could have better options available (who knows what the potential is?) and this effectively ties you in for a fairly long period of time.

I'd assume that any other offers of this nature would have similar conditions attached, hence it would have very little impact on where I played.

[AndrewT]

The Full Tilt thing is not all as it seems though.  From memory of reading the small print ages ago its a salary of $1m per year for 10 years during which you're signed up to promote Full Tilt on an exclusive basis.

That's correct. Plus you have to play 10 hours a week on FTP. Basically you're signing up to be Howard Lederer's bitch for ten years.